My good friend Rick Fowler and I went to a concert last night billed as “Harry Chapin: A Celebration in Song” at the Quick Center in Fairfield, CT. The music was incredible, as I had expected. The politics were great, as I had hoped. What wasn’t expected by me and my compatriot was kindness. When…

I know a lot of teachers who do great work. I also know of a lot of teachers who don’t even like kids. Teachers, like everyone else, run the gamut from excellent to horrible. Today, I’d like to announce something new: a celebration of not only good teaching, but exceptional humanity in the classroom.  Every year…

I haven’t thought about these things for years, and I seldom talk about them, but my friend Sean Murphy brought them to mind when he shared an article on inner city violence that attributed that violence to racism. In 1972 or 73 my parents moved from very poor, nearly all White, Chicopee Massachusetts to lower…

There’s a scene in the TV show “Chuck” where the bad guy gets a call mid-speech and is informed that the good guys are coming to get him. He immediately notifies his partners-in-crime, who try to flee the scene and are discovered and caught as well. This week, Donald Trump’s star is falling from the…

Well, it seems all the players have shown their cards. The truth is out and we have a choice to make. The choice is, yes, about Trump and Hillary.  That’s not the whole issue, though. It’s a choice between hate groups and community-building groups. It’s a choice between fear and hope. It’s a choice between…

Saw a client today who on the surface just seems to embrace every stereotype of an aggressive/violent man. I could have treated his violent tendencies through behavior modification. I could have used narrative therapy to explain that “men shouldn’t tell their wives to shut up — ever!” like they taught in grad school. I could…

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” — Jesus “Know you got to run, Know you got to hide Still there is a great life Lingerin’ deep within your eyes. Everybody, I love you Everybody, I do Though your heart is in anger I need your love to get through When…

The group in the title is from the TV Series “Angel”, a show spawned from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. They are the legal team for The Big Bad — the shiny suits that work  evil at it’s most primal. They are, of course, fictional, being from a TV series and all, but sometimes I wonder……

  Bernie Sanders is the kindest “radical” I have ever heard speak. I suspect that’s what makes him scary to The Powers That Be — the extremely wealthy and the extremely powerful who make up 1/10th of 1 percent or 1 percent of America today.  Contrary to Larry David’s Saturday Night Live impersonation, today at…